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other travelers in Florida (Prof. J. Chester Bradley, Mr. J. R. Watson of 
the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Mr. Charles Dury and Mr. 
W. S. Blatchley especially), and from the writer’s own collection, which 
includes the extensive material collected by Mr. W. S. Genung at Stephens- 
ville in Taylor County and at Sebastian and Paola, and that collected for 
Mr. Geo. W. J. Angell by Charles L. Brownell at Cape Sable and Enter- 
prise, where sifting the lake shore debris in late fall and winter gave good 
results. 
Notwithstanding the considerable amount of material thus included in 
making the new list, there are still many species included on doubtful or 
single records, and some instances in which the data given for captures 
contradict the previously recorded distribution of the species. These doubt- 
ful cases have been eliminated as far as possible, and in this connection the 
very careful collecting of Mr. H. P. Léding, of Mobile, Ala., has been used 
to check the Florida list. It appears to be a fact that the distribution of 
some species is actually very limited or “patchy” as Mr. P. H. Rolffs 
expressed it in speaking of a similar condition in the distribution of plants, 
so that a solitary record may well fail of repetition unless the exact locality 
and date is also repeated, and additions to the list may reasonably be 
expected as other localities are examined and other methods of collecting 
are applied. For Carabide, the sunken bottles, baited with molasses, so 
much used by Mr. Davis, are strongly to be recommended in this connection. 
During 1914, volumes IV and V of the ‘Memoirs of the Coleoptera’ by 
Col. Thomas L. Casey, appeared and since they dealt largely with the 
Carabidee, many additional records were thus obtained. If all the new 
names proposed in these papers were added, the list would be enlarged, par- 
ticularly in the number of species peculiar to Florida; but this course has 
not seemed justifiable because the descriptions show the names in many 
instances to be intended to replace those now in use (and already cited) 
and their treatment as additions would therefore be misleading. Such 
names are, however, mentioned in their appropriate place, leaving the choice 
between using them and the older names for future investigation. 
To all of the friends named above and to Dr. Leland O. Howard, Chief 
of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology, for permission to use the records accu- 
mulated by Mr. Schwarz, my thanks for assistance in various ways are due 
and heartily tendered. 
As to the comparison of the species of Carabidee now known to inhabit 
Florida with those of other regions, it may be said that nearly all are of the 
same genera and species as those of the more northern states, about one third, 
however, extending only into the Gulf Strip; about ten per cent. of the 
species and varieties are peculiar to Florida. Of that ten per cent. not quite 
